It’s crazy if you have good morals and care about your fellow man.
If you want to make boatloads of cash and don’t care about lives, you follow the rules and the same playbook as Remington did when their rifles suffered a similar self-firing phenomenon that killed customers.
Delay, deny, defend yourself and take in as much cash as possible until you are legally boxed in. Hope at that point your profits are greater than your penalties, such that they are just another cost of doing business.
What amazes me are the Sig Sauer fanatics I see online in the gun communities defending them endlessly as if they can do no harm.
Are you seriously suggesting their customers would commit murder over this? And how would admitting their faults make such an unstable, revenge-bent person not want to kill them?
Normal people don't get bent toward murder until all other options are exhausted. I mean this whole thing seems very rare so probably not, but jesus take some fucking ownership. Bald faced lying is pretty fucking enraging and despicable. I'm not sure what you are so worked up about.
I don't think that is crazy at all, our whole system incentivizes corporate behavior exactly like this.
From your tone I assume that you would expect Sig to come forward, analyze, discuss and hopefully solve these problems as soon as possible.
But that would be utterly stupid from their point of view. Public opinion cares very little about the details-- anytime you get associated with issues like this is simply bad for your brand/stockpric: downplaying, denying and gaslighting is absolutely the way to go here for the company.
IMO to fix this you would need to strongly increase personal liability specifically for misinformation and delays in cases like this, and we would need to reward good behavior (proactive fixes, honest communication).
But just look at the whole tetraethyl lead debacle: This cost at least a million years of human lifes (!!), after the lead industry denied known problems and purposefully obstructed/discredited critical researchers (e.g. R. Buyers and H. Needleman) for decades. I strongly believe that a number of decisionmakers should have ended up with a dead penalty or lifelone imprisonment, but there were ZERO consequences for anyone involved, and current rethoric around "deregulation" makes it obvious to me that zero lessons were learned.
If you want to make boatloads of cash and don’t care about lives, you follow the rules and the same playbook as Remington did when their rifles suffered a similar self-firing phenomenon that killed customers.
Delay, deny, defend yourself and take in as much cash as possible until you are legally boxed in. Hope at that point your profits are greater than your penalties, such that they are just another cost of doing business.
What amazes me are the Sig Sauer fanatics I see online in the gun communities defending them endlessly as if they can do no harm.